Improvement in butter buckets



J. F. DU M0 NT.

Patmed March 11, 1873.

' @mutant Butter-Buckets.

` minvws: w3 .M Mm/ v AM Moro-L lmosnAPH/c ca N 1: (assnmvs's macsss)UNITED A STATES PATENT OFFIOEA JOHN F. DUMONT, oF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

IMPFOVEMENT IN BUTTERBUCKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,713, dated March1l, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

` clare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming a part ofthis specification.

- The invention consists In forming an airtight butter-bucket in threeeasily-detachable parts, so that it can be mspeedily subdivided and allportions thoroughly cleaned. It also consists in the means by whichthethree parts are clamped together, and in the means by which theclamps are locked and unlocked.

In the drawing the figure represents a perspective view.

A represents va bucket body or cylinder, formed by lapping and rivetingtogether the edges of a rectangular sheet of wood of suitable size. B Bare two disks, small enough to lit snugly into each end of thecylinderA, and having the annular extensions or ilanges b b1, by whichthey are prevented from being forced inwardly. One serves as the bottomand the other` as the top ot' the bucket, while, with the body, theyconstitute a separable and easilycleaned bucket.. These parts may beclamped together in various ways without departing from the originalidea or principle ot' my invention, whichA consists in making a bucketin three detachable parts. The particular means which I employ to effectthe object of holding together the three parts consist in a pair ofwires, C O. These are bent twice so as to form the right angles c c, andso that the part c" will be less than the diameter of the cylinder O.The ends are then passed through holes in annular ange b1, so as tobring the two wires into parallelism to each other, but on oppositesides of a parallel plane passed through the diameter of disks. Thewires are then bent twice and fastened to the bottom of disk B, leavingthe part c of wires k just high enough to pass easily over the top ofcylinder A. These wires, being more or less elastic, can be easilypressed aside to allow the cylinder to be fitted on disk B. The but- Yter is then packed into the cylinder, the wires again pressed aside, thetop B fitted into place,

and the wires closed carefully over it.V This mode of clamping togetherthe three parts of a bucket, so as to make it air-tight, makes them veryreadily detachable. The lock which I employ to retain the wires in placeand preventthem from being slipped oifin handling consists in a wirehandle, D, whose ends pass through staples d d made fast in holes b2 b2of the top B. They are then bent twice, once in their own plane andagain at an angle thereto. By this construction the ends d d are erectwhen the handle is laid down on one side, so that the wires O G cannotescape; but these ends are inserted into holes in the cover or top Bwhen the handle is laid down upon the opposite side, allowing theremoval of wires. When the handle is elevated and used in transportingthe bucket the wires are held with equal security.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is- Y Y l. A bucket composed of the detachableflanged disks B B and cylinder A, constructed to fit together as and forthe purpose described.

2. The wires O O passing through and fastened to bottom B', and havingparts cc movable over the top B, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. The handle D passing through staples d. d in top and having twobends, one at right angles to the other, so as to form the ends d d', incombinationwith the bucket, as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN F. DUMONT.A

Witnesses:

THOMAS F., WALLACE, THEODOBE F. LocKwooD.

